12 got up off the floor and went home, and a month later gave birth to a boy. Y es, Y es ! Y OU probahly heard nothing ahout the opening of the metropolitan cricket season. Even if you had been in the locker house of the Crescent ...L\.thletic-Hamilton Club at Huntington, Long Island, a furlong from the pitch w here the match took place, you wouldn't have heard anything. The Crescent cricketers and Haverford Col- lege were locked in a tense but inaudible struggle. The players, in white flan- nels, were grouped about a sort of green carpet in the middle of a field, one man pitching to another man who kept hit- ting one foul ball after another, using a flat-bladed bat like a butter-pat roller. Whenever he hit an especially long foul, he would look inquiringly at a third man standing at the other end of the carpet, who would hiss, "Yes, yes!" Then the two would scamper like anything, changing places as if they were playing prisoner's base. Every time they did this it counted as a run, or so one of the spectators, a nice old gentleman, told us. A moment later, something happened that we thought we understood thoroughly. The ball, a hard, red leather-covered one, hit the batsman. "Now he'll take his base," we said confidently. The old gentle- man said he was out, however, adding by way of explanation, "L.b.w. Leg before wicket, you know." There were nine spectators present, four ladies and five gentlemen. A number of the Haverford College team who were not batting stood around looking on, too. With only one excep- tion, the team is composed of Ameri- cans. Haverford is the only college in this country that has a varsity cricket team; they have had it ever since 1836, when it was started by a campus gar- dener named Carvill. It ranks as a major sport, and varsity cricketers arc awarded magnificent red-and-black blazers. The Haverfords all like cricket O.K. They say that playing baseball helps your cricket fielding, but hurts your batting. (In cricket you bunt the good balls and take a cut at the bad ones.) Nine of the eleven Crescent- Hamilton players were British-born. Just as a matter of record, they were much, much better than the Haver- fords. There's a Metropolitan cricket league, with teams from the Crescent Athletic-Hamilton Club; the Brooklyn Cricket Club; the Flatbush C.C.; the I F you haven't heard of Hugh Troy, you've at least heard of some of his exploits-digging up Fif- ty-fourth Street without a permit or sane reason, secret- ing ten-cent-store pearls in the oysters of fellow dinner guests, carrying his grand- mother's skeleton around in a suitcase. Not to put too fine a point on it, Mr. Troy is a practical joker. He's an ar- tist, too-did the murals in the cocktail bar of the Savoy-Plaza-but that's just between times. We hunted him up the other day, because for years it's been apparent that we'd have to sooner or later. He told us yes, he is the man who puzzled the cops in Central Park so dreadful- ly with a privately owned bench. HIs official account of this rather famous r- I . . ((Calling all cars I Calling all cars!'" CJQ C:=>CJ C) c.::J c:J c::J g:'o DC) CJg L:::) DC) c::> . c:::l c.::J tðoo OC)CJ -.::J CJ o c=:) c:::1 DCJ CJ DC) c:::::J fl a.f' Veteran St. George C.C. of Elizabeth, N.J.; the Union County C.C.; and the Staten Island C.C. A numher of col- ored teams of West Indians play regu- larly in Van Cortlandt Park, and there is an occasional test match between the white and the colored leagues. All this was told us hy a Mr. Marsh, chairman MAY .30, 19.3 of the Crescent cricket com- mittee. "Frankly," he added, ((I think all-Ne\v York black would beat all-New York white hands down this year. rhey're very keen." The game had gone on meanwhile, with the Cres- cent-Hamiltons doing awful things to the Haverfords. They were already dozens and dozens of runs ahead. In cricket, it seems, you some- times good-naturedly keep on playing after a game has been won, just for the fun of the thing. We felt a little bit guilty at not having been ex- cited at all during the game, hut the old gentleman reas- sured us. "I always tell my friends," he said proudly, "that if they're out for ex- citemen t, they should let cricket strictly alone." "Yes, 1 " O d yes. we sal . Descriptio?z AN idler who was listening rl. to the radio at noon the other day heard, or thinks he heard, an announcement by the Bulova Watch Com- pany that went this way: "Bulova presents The Ame- rican Girl-small, round, and covered with sparkling 1 . d " ( lamon s. Some Fun